William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-slave Trade Campaigner

William Hague is the bestselling author of William Pitt the Younger, published in 2004 to rapturous reviews. The book has sold just over 70,000 copies and was chosen as History Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. William Hague was born in Rotherham in 1961. At Oxford, he was President of both the Union and the University Conservative Association. He has been MP for Richmond, Yorkshire since 1989. He joined the Cabinet in 1995 as Secretary of State for Wales, and was leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to June 2001. He is now Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet. William Wilberforce, published in June 2007, is his second book.